Religion: The Archbishop Stands Firm

In the garden of the archbishop's residence in New Orleans, a group of
Roman Catholic women chatted and fingered their rosaries, waiting for
the Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, to lead them on a Holy
Week pilgrimage of prayer to the city's shrines. They studiously tried
to ignore women pickets protesting the archbishop's excommunication the
day before of three Roman Catholics who had opposed his decision to
desegregate the city's Catholic schools.